If ever I complained about being bored as I child, my mum would throw her hands up and ask ‘How can you be bored when there’s so much tidying to do?’ Which is probably the type of thing I say to my husband now.
However, even in a world where there are always more chores to plough through, we still somehow find ourselves bored – and an almost universal smartphone addiction is definitely making it worse.
Take social media consumption, for example. One study has found that ‘digital switching’ – where you frequently switch between videos and fast-forward through them – actually makes you feel more bored than you were before you started. In fact, rather counterintuitively, rather than bobbing around between content, watching one video in its entirety will make you feel less bored than if you try and gobble up a whole load at once.
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